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    Project Aspen: A Single-Source-of-Truth Approach to Digital Transformation in Higher Education
    ( 2025-11) Maranan, Diego S.
    Effective data management is critical for evidence-based decision-making to achieve equitable quality education. Centralizing data from various sources enhances accuracy and institutional responsiveness, while learning analytics plays a vital role in monitoring student progress. Project Aspen, implemented at the University of the Philippines Open University’s Faculty of Information and Communication Studies, exemplifies an approach to academic digital transformation by centralizing academic and institutional data into a single-source-of-truth system. This is achieved by federating employee and student information databases into a unified repository, leveraging flexible, low-cost, no-code tools like Airtable. Real-time reporting, automated analytics, and dynamic portfolio generation enable streamlined processes, improved accountability, and flexible reporting. This paper highlights Aspen’s ability to integrate data efficiently to address fragmented reporting and redundant data entry, describing implementation challenges and key successes to suggest actionable insights for smaller institutions seeking to modernize their data infrastructures for digital transformation.
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    Artscience, cultural policy, and epistemological empathy: Towards imaginaries of the future as a new commons in the Philippines
    ((Unpublished), 2025-12-12) Maranan, Diego S.
    Who gets to imagine the future? In the Philippines, there is a governance gap surrounding this question: government agencies for science, technology, and trade drive discussion of the future around innovation, growth, and "creative industries", while the agencies for culture and the arts are mandated to focus on the past and on culture as heritage. Drawing on Justin O'Connor's proposition that culture is neither a luxury or an industry, but a foundational capability—one that equips citizens to participate in shared meaning-making and democratic decision-making, this talk argues that there is a potential for science institutions to be "safe spaces" where democratic futures are co-imagined, through artscience practiced on equal footing with cultural workers and artists.
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    Ambahan ni Ambo: A Digital Experience
    ( 2021) Dival, Rodeliza Joyce T.
    Ambahan ni Ambo: A Digital Experience is an initiative to adapt one of Ed Maranan’s stories into a digital platform that focuses on the experiences of each character and how these would translate in real life and give inspiration to its users to follow their example. Two frameworks have been implemented - first is to simplify content by dividing the program into age-appropriate branches that each age-group can easily manage, while the second framework focuses more on the experiences of each of the characters in the story and how readers might see their own real-life experiences with them. This research follows a perspective similar to Design Thinking and revolves around Planning, Creation, and Evaluation.
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    Conference Track Description: “Death, Degrowth, and Finitude in the Age of the Lifelike” (PoM Conference Aachen 2024)
    ( 2024) Maranan, Diego S. ; Vermeulen, Angelo ; Holt, Amy ; Kuchner, Ulrike ; Steyaert, Pieter
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    Raderdieren, klonen, DNA en het in kaart brengen van menselijke ideologie in de ruimte
    (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Bio-Ethiek (Dutch Association for Bioethics), 2023) Vermeulen, Angelo ; Maranan, Diego S.
    [Original] De mensheid is gefascineerd door culturele onsterfelijkheid en dit thema zit ook diepgeworteld in de verbeelding van ruimteverkenning. Nederzettingen in de ruimte worden dikwijls gepresenteerd als hoogtepunten van technologische en culturele evolutie. Ēngines of Ēternity is een multimedia kunstproject dat de menselijke neiging om nederzettingen in de ruimte te bouwen, bestudeert door de lens van raderdieren: de kleinste dieren op aarde, die voor ruimteonderzoek worden gebruikt. Het project is onderdeel van een serie kunstwerken van het SEADS ‘artscience’ collectief en vormt het vertrekpunt van een constant veranderende multimedia-installatie die reeds getoond werd in Brussel, Dresden en Londen. [English Translation] Humanity is fascinated by cultural immortality, and this theme is also deeply rooted in the imagination of space exploration. Settlements in space are often presented as highlights of technological and cultural evolution. Ēngines of Ēternity is a multimedia art project that studies the human tendency to build settlements in space through the lens of cog animals: the smallest animals on Earth, used for space exploration. Part of a series of artworks by the SEADS "artscience" collective, the project is the starting point of a constantly evolving multimedia installation that has already been shown in Brussels, Dresden and London.